Audrey Hudsons husband had just left for work on August 6 when suddenly, her dog began barking. The nationally-known journalist walked over to the curtains and peeked outside to discover her Chesapeake Bay home was surrounded by law enforcement officers wearing full body armor.

The phone rang. It was her husband.

Im in the driveway, he said. The police are here. Open the door.

And so began Hudsons nightmare  held captive by armed agents of the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security as they staged a pre-dawn raid in search of unregistered firearms and a potato gun.

I think they found a great way to get into my house and get a hold of my confidential notes and go through every other file in my office." But instead of taking the potato gun, agents seized unrelated government documents and notes from the former Washington Times journalist.

Agents took Hudsons records during a search for guns and related items owned by her husband, a civilian Coast Guard employee. They also confiscated her legally registered firearms, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The armed agents held Hudson and her husband in the kitchen as they searched their home. At some point, one of the agents asked if she was the same person who had written a series of stories critical of the Federal Air Marshal program in the mid-2000s.

...He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences....

“Audrey Hudson reports further on the newly released inspector general report that confirms several key concerns expressed by Annie Jacobsen about the infamous Flight 327, otherwise known as Terror in the Skies:

The report comes three years after the incident, which was not officially acknowledged until a month later, after The Washington Times reported passenger and marshal complaints that the incident resembled a dry run for a terrorist attack. After reviewing the report, air marshals say it confirms their earlier suspicions.

Many people, including at least one current air marshal, are going on the record and putting names to their complaints:

An air marshal who told The Washington Times that he has been involved personally in terror probes that were ignored by federal security managers, called such behavior typical.

Agency management was not only covering up numerous probes and dry-run encounters from Congress and other federal law-enforcement agencies, it was also hiding these incidents from their own flying air marshals, said P. Jeffrey Black, an air marshal stationed in Las Vegas.

Hudson says that both current and former air marshals (thats marshals, plural) say the mens activities detail[] a dry run for a terrorist attack

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posted on 10/28/2013 9:06:53 AM PDT
by Marie
(When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)

According to the original article, I don’t think they did. They returned them to her.

This is sooo hinky.

And stupid. So she wrote a series of articles critical of the FAMP in 2004-2007. It’s now 2013 and nobody gives a crap. I now remember some of these issues from back in the day, but I had totally forgotten about them until now.

Then they pull this stunt. Guess who’s back in the news with her old story? They just gave life support to a dead issue.

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posted on 10/28/2013 9:15:29 AM PDT
by Marie
(When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)

Her husband is a civilian Coast Guard employee, who had some run in with law enforcement a while back. They are supposedly investigating him because they think he owns guns when he is not allowed to, due to a conviction. The agents that showed up at his home from the CG are part of their investigative service, like Navy NCIS, or USAF OSI.

It appears the agents involved had a warrant to search for guns, but seized records out of her office. Makes one wonder if all the problems the husband is having don't stem from retaliation against the wife. Seems strange that a former FAM shows up with this group and then starts immediately exceeding the scope of the warrant.

Another question will be how quickly those notes were sent to the FAM Service. Since they are all in DHS there may not be a record of the notes being transferred. It sounds like the Washington Times is already looking to sue.

In a previous account of this story it said the husband had a recent conviction for resisting arrest. Due to that conviction he had limitations placed on his rights to firearms. Don’t know how that conviction works with his long term civilian employment with the CG.

But but but the police are on our side according to the FR jackboot licking society.

You have to explore a little history to understand how this situation came about. Back when I was a kid, the local cops wore nice blue uniforms and policeman hats. They had revolvers and whistles and could be found on the evenings hanging out on Main Street chatting it up with good ol' boys. They were basically the old school "protect and serve" public servants.

The counterculture of the 60's labeled them "pigs" (from Orwell's Animal Farm I suppose) and there was a genuine disbelief and welling of support from the conservative side of the population. This support for law enforcement was basically a right-wing cause throughout the 70's and 80's as the left stayed on constant offense, attacking law enforcement on every front.

Then came the War on Drugs, which slowly and over a long period of time, has turned our police forces from the "protect and serve" public servants of yesteryear to more of a supervisory role in the society. Now, even small town police forces are dressed like ninja swat killers 24/7. Everything they do is geared toward a Mexican drug dealer street shootout breaking out in any situation.

Along with this change in their role, has come the power and arrogance that we see now. Now that they exercise so much power over our daily lives, the left has learned to love the police, and have brought them into the schools with their brainless zero tolerance campaigns. I don't think there is any Federal Agency now without armed SWAT teams at the ready. At this point, the appropriate Orwell Animal Farm reference is that of the vicious dogs, who worked for the pigs in the story.

There are still a lot of good cops out there and I am sure that many of them are Freepers. To those I mean no offense, but the militarization of the police is undeniable and is a huge mistake for our society to go down this road.

I say that we need to get all the $$ out of drugs, by essentially decriminalizing all drug activity. This will make drugs so cheap that no dealers will be willing to kill or risk death over near-zero profit items. Will people destroy their lives because of drugs? Yes, but they will take less people with them on their road to destruction and we won't have to live being supervised by vicious dogs.

"Theoretically, there is a tipping point at which the Federal or certain state government leaders will exceed their authority, or show such great ineptitude to such a degree that the MSM will have to drop their support of extreme leftist leaders and begin to engage in investigative journalism."

The tipping point is when a Republican is president, then virtually anything is up for grabs as a potential scandal: the lies of Wilson and Plame are gleefully accepted at face value; a routine turnover of federal prosecutors is treated as a unique instance of "politicization" of the justice system; a Thanksgiving turkey photo-op is treated as a major scandal; the RATS "subliminal message" incident; the doctored National Guard records; the election-weekend leak of Bush's long-ago drunk-driving arrest (which probably cost Bush just enough votes to throw the nation into turmoil for two months); the temporary review of a last-minute Clinton water-quality order is equated with "pouring" arsenic into the water; the Cheney hunting accident as an attempt to kill a man who knew too much; faulty intelligence - almost universally accepted as true before the war - becomes interpreted as "lying us into war"; 9/11 gives rise to theories - carried in MSM newspapers - that Bush engineered the attack or deliberately ignored clear evidence of the plot; and so on.

But with Obama, NO scandal gets any real traction with the MSM. If any scandal shows the possibility of getting "legs", it is summarily dropped. At worst, those pointing out the scandal and taking it seriously are demonized as "racists" or "anarchists" or "terrorists" or "anti-American".

Under Obama, we have finally arrived at the doorstep of what prevails in most of Europe - a one-party surveillance state in which there is a symbiosis between a leftist government and the news media such that the ONLY time the media will criticize the government is if it tries to backtrack on some previous leftist policy, e.g., to roll-back unemployment or retirement benefits in order to avoid economic catastrophe.

It’s obvious what this is. This is deliberate harassment by the government regarding opinions and speech that they don’t like. They use any fake charge that they want, and get a search warrant with their lies, and then they invade your home and destroy your privacy and property.

Contrary to popular opinion, this is not the “sweet land of liberty” “land of the free” and all that other bulldropping that we learned in school that is no longer true.

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posted on 10/28/2013 10:48:47 AM PDT
by I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)

I think the problems with the police go well beyond the war on drugs. The courts are also complicit in these problems. Gradually, the police have come to regard themselves as the only ones with the right to bear arms, and citizens using arms in self-defense are vulnerable to arrest and prosecution. The arrogance of judges increases almost daily. And police chiefs - especially in major cities - have become entirely political animals, beholden to the liberal politicians who hire them. And this has a ripple effect throughout police departments, as liberal attitudes are enforced top-down. There is still a gap between the attitudes of rank-and-file cops and their bosses, but it is shrinking.

There are still a lot of good cops out there and I am sure that many of them are Freepers

And how many of these "good cops" denounced the actions of these guys? How many of theose "good cops" will refuse to confiscate firearms when the time comes? My answer is none and none.

In the current instance not only did they steal the citizen's firearms, but also LEGALLY OWNED FIREARMS WERE STOLEN BY THE POLICE. Pretty obvious this was done solely as retaliation for some unflattering reporting.

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posted on 10/28/2013 10:55:31 AM PDT
by from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)

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